Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1887-11-02

his people to beware of emigrant agent
who were constantly trying to work u
negro crazes in favor of moving to Kansa
or some other glowingly. pictured but false
ly-colored region at the North. 1t was al
a delusion and snare, for the setting o
which the said agents were. richly paid
He knew all about how it was himself
The negro who allowed himself to fall int
the snare was simply throwing himself
away. He'd come back sure, if he coulC
get back; if not, he'd linger for a little
time an exile in, to him, an upgenlal anC
unnatural land, and then Psematurely lay
his bones away beneath the frozen sod oi
some bleak prairie. The South is the ne.
groe's only natural home. He is entirely
| a Southern growth. Stay at your natural
home where white people who are your
! friends have use for you and want you to
stay. The white people in Kansas have
no use for you, and they curse the emlgrant
agent a. sonndly for bringing you there %
you would eventually curse him for taking
you. Stay among your friends and help
them build up our beautiful South-yes,
help them with your muscle and yonr will
to do 1t. Let wen enough alone. Turn a
deaf ear to all who would tell you there are
any in the South who are not your friends
if you make yourself worthy the friendship
of aay good man. Much depends on what
you make yourself, ,here-there you couldn't
SO make yourself that you would generally
looked upon in friendship There are ties
between you and the white people here that
have no existence there. You have known
each other always. And did you two races
skillet togethers And didn't baby Angus
k,1o hoh he
Caesar when aunt Harriet was around and
baby Cesar wasn'ts How such thought
would shock and disgust the dandy dude of
the North; but not so here-it is only
classed with the pleasant memories of after
life. So, you see we are friends in friend
ship that to, k shape in our tenderest ages
and such we shall ever remain, despite the
efforts of dishonest designers, who may es
TRANCE US temporarily, but more than tenn
porarily they can never make it. Here it
is you know me and know you we have
been raised up together; your interest is
my interest. DOu want the use of my mus
Gle and l can take in return the use of your
brains, or the money which your brains has
enabled yon to accumulate, which is all the
same, and thus we can allphosper !; but up
there the case is very different. You don't
know me and don't know you. have
no use for your muscle. use my own,
and yours when offered, is in direct rivalry.
And SO it goes.
The fact is, the white laborer will never
work with the negro at the North. He con-
siders it disgrace. ou never see negroes
and white men together shingling house,
or laying brick, or painting, or ploughing
up there, but here you see them working
shoulder to shoulder, and nothing at all is
thought of it.
But one tells you that you don't get your
rights in the South. You do. You have
the right to vote, and to sit on jury, and
to 60 and come as you please, and to own
land and get rich if you will and can-now,
what more could you ask You have
every right that any American citizen has,
be he white or black; you have no right to
ask more "But mixed schoolsl" says a
Northern friend. True they have them up
there and we don't, but now, you don't
want them. Lea me tell you how it is. No
one ever saw celored teacher in charge of
a mixed school at the North-no ona ever
will. So, as you must see, that mixed
school system simply gives the white peo-
pie all the money for teaching, and dom t
give the negro over his share of the learn
ing, either. Here the unmixed colored
schools are taught by negroes, so the negro
gets his share of the school fund, in every
respect.
"But SOCIAL equality % Now, no sensible
person of our race wants anything like that,
and preaching it up to US is only very
thin fraud. Suppose should sit down to
dinner at an upper-class white mans table
why wouldn't eat half enough for the
reason that should feel so much out of
place, and know white man at my table
wouldn't eat half enough, for he'd spend
most of his time peering out at the door
lest some other white man should come
along and see him out of place. That
social equality talk is all foolishness,
But they toll that the negro is kept dowo
by the white man. Fool,shness again. If
the negro stays down he keeps himself
down. He has every chance to get rich and
go up as the white man has. Look at the
worthy President of this meeting here at
make them, and yet he has never been kept
down He owns property enough that it
would take several hours to walk around it,
and no one ever tried to prevent him from
getting it. either. He went to work and
built himself up like a man, but you who
are always murmusing about being kepS
down make what little efforts at going up
you do make by trying to climb somebody
else. You try to pull up instead of trying
to build up. The pull up plan never sue.
ceeds. Build up is the word. There is, l
assure you, just as much room at the top
for the negro as there is for the white man.
and if he don't occupy some of that room
the fault is all his own, and he has nobody
but himself to. blame for it. You must
have something here (slapping his pockst)
to be up-you must have money, and you
can't have it unless you make and save it.